del.icio.us and twitter
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- kelpie0
they've been looking at monetizing twitter for teh last year or two.
Don;t use twitter myself, but I know for a fact that it is 99% of teh time the first source for any breaking news due to the form of it. The plane that went down in teh hudson for example; first mention and pics on twitter. People aren't really getting it if they think that the usefulness of it is to tell people you are off to buy milk.
How ideas and concepts spread is massively important these days and lots of these net based communication tools are making this easier to happen. A lot of the 'value' of something like twitter, or facebook, doesn't come from money they can put in people's hands directly, but from how they can help carry ideas and trends through their user base, on behalf of other bodies.